RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 UNEXPECTED INFANT DEATH AND ADVERSE SOCIAL STATUS
JF Pediatrics
JO Pediatrics
FD American Academy of Pediatrics
SP A77
OP A77
VO 83
IS 4
A1 Student,
YR 1989
UL http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/83/4/A77.2.abstract
AB Families [in which unexpected infant death occurred during a minor illness] showed the most striking rise [in Sheffield] between 1980 and 1987 [and] had twice as many adverse social factors as controls. When we reviewed [these] deaths we found that many of the families in this group seemed to belong to a small subculture within which morbidity, poverty, excess smoking and alcohol consumption, and a fatalistic outlook predominate.... Many unexpected deaths in infants are multifactorial in origin; possibilities for prevention have social, political, and educational as well as medical implications.